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Muriel Stuart
1889–1967
Remembered for lyrical, emotionally direct poems, this early 20th-century writer moved from wartime themes toward searching work about love, gender, and private feeling. Her poetry was admired by later readers for its intensity and clear music.
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by Muriel Stuart
About the author
Born Muriel Stuart Irwin in South London, Muriel Stuart was a poet associated with Scottish writing through her family background, even though she appears to have spent her life in England. Reliable sources consulted here agree that she died in 1967, but they conflict on her birth year, giving either 1885 or 1889.
Her early poems included responses to the First World War, and later work explored love, desire, and sexual politics with unusual frankness for the time. She published several collections in the early decades of the 20th century and earned lasting attention for poems such as The Seed-Shop and Wild Geese Across the Moon.
Later in life, she seems to have stepped away from poetry, with sources noting that her later publications were about gardening. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found from the sources checked during this conversation.